Show future english speech matter of speculation in two centuries the english speak ing world will not be speaking ung eng llah lish according to 11 C bailey british writer what it will speak la Is to be a strange compromise between future british english and future american english a lingo perhaps mercifully hidden by providence from our imagination lie he adds this prophecy Is not mine it was wag made by a lecturer in phonetics A lloyd james Ms ills reason for chehy the hybridization of our language to is that there are many more people in the world today who speak american english than there artre speaking british english Fugli sli here we have one of those undo unde diable statements which io in fact Is fallacious america has many more citizens than this his country but they do not all speak the same tongue the inexperienced english en elsh ear could detect even if their own novelists did not dot insist upon it differences in the speech of the Arner american lenn from the eastern states from the south and from the middle west which Is the true american Amer lenn english 1 |